07-23-2017, 05:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-23-2017, 06:02 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Greg has too damn many Yosemite threads. It's like EDs boardwalk bands threads, broken, disjointed, fractious. I can't remember which Yosemite thread I last posted on. Maybe it was the Apu trilogy thread...
So last year, we cancelled our backpacking trip to be with jingles for his last days in his pomcarnation. Stacy gets cranky if she doesn't backpack once a year, and we bailed on backpacking the year before because it was Joshua Tree and the desert was too damn hot. We were going to leave last week and backpack the Grand Canyon of Yosemite, a trail we got rained out of several years ago - spent a whole day under a rock in a torrential downpour...but it was beautiful because we faced a sheer granite wall that revealed secret waterfalls. But this year, tuolumme didn't open until a few weeks ago because it was still snowed in, and the water was so high that reports said creeks broke the trail that were 3 ft deep of rushing ice cold water. I'll ford creeks in full pack as long as the ice water doesn't reach my genitals. Deeper than that and I'm out. None of he high camps opened this year because of weather. The Chinese have gone to extraordinary lengths to perpetuate this climate change fake news. Now there's the wildfire in Mariposa, where my mom-in-law used to live. The valley is smoky but the tourists are undaunted.
So we're still on. Snow line is 9500 and the highest we should go is 9400. Two of Tara's high school friends are coming - both have never backpacked before. We have passes for half dome and plan to enter at Tenaya lake, make it for Merced lake and the through little Yosemite to half dome then back to the valley. I'm recovering from a right groin pull, a likely broken little finger knuckle on my right hand, a chipped toenail on my right middle toe, and my blood sugar has been unusually high lately, despite a decent diet. All of the maladies fall under geez disease. But it's gonna be awesome because Yosemite is California's cathedral of nature, and it always moves me.
Work is really busy. Haven't had a break since long before KFTC25 AF and the light at the end of the tunnel - the 'normal' two weeks in between this launch of summer 2017 and moving tara to SD, just got taken away. Tiger Claw must redo the sprinklers and will get new carpet for our office which means everything must move and be replaced that week. And my office space is buried under 18 years of detritus.
I'll have two days between Yosemite and rotr. I won't be driving solo like usual for rotr because I know I wouldn't make it home on my own so I'm traveling with three ladies from my krew. I've always framed of being carried into to an event on a palanquin, but they'll probably be carrying me out on a stretcher.
Summer 2017 got no chill.
So last year, we cancelled our backpacking trip to be with jingles for his last days in his pomcarnation. Stacy gets cranky if she doesn't backpack once a year, and we bailed on backpacking the year before because it was Joshua Tree and the desert was too damn hot. We were going to leave last week and backpack the Grand Canyon of Yosemite, a trail we got rained out of several years ago - spent a whole day under a rock in a torrential downpour...but it was beautiful because we faced a sheer granite wall that revealed secret waterfalls. But this year, tuolumme didn't open until a few weeks ago because it was still snowed in, and the water was so high that reports said creeks broke the trail that were 3 ft deep of rushing ice cold water. I'll ford creeks in full pack as long as the ice water doesn't reach my genitals. Deeper than that and I'm out. None of he high camps opened this year because of weather. The Chinese have gone to extraordinary lengths to perpetuate this climate change fake news. Now there's the wildfire in Mariposa, where my mom-in-law used to live. The valley is smoky but the tourists are undaunted.
So we're still on. Snow line is 9500 and the highest we should go is 9400. Two of Tara's high school friends are coming - both have never backpacked before. We have passes for half dome and plan to enter at Tenaya lake, make it for Merced lake and the through little Yosemite to half dome then back to the valley. I'm recovering from a right groin pull, a likely broken little finger knuckle on my right hand, a chipped toenail on my right middle toe, and my blood sugar has been unusually high lately, despite a decent diet. All of the maladies fall under geez disease. But it's gonna be awesome because Yosemite is California's cathedral of nature, and it always moves me.
Work is really busy. Haven't had a break since long before KFTC25 AF and the light at the end of the tunnel - the 'normal' two weeks in between this launch of summer 2017 and moving tara to SD, just got taken away. Tiger Claw must redo the sprinklers and will get new carpet for our office which means everything must move and be replaced that week. And my office space is buried under 18 years of detritus.
I'll have two days between Yosemite and rotr. I won't be driving solo like usual for rotr because I know I wouldn't make it home on my own so I'm traveling with three ladies from my krew. I've always framed of being carried into to an event on a palanquin, but they'll probably be carrying me out on a stretcher.
Summer 2017 got no chill.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse